Working with web bookmarks 22
Just as in your browser on our PC, you are able to bookmark webpages in webOS so you can quickly return to that site in the future. Your 12 most recently bookmarks are displayed as tiles when you load up the web browser, but you can actually save any number of bookmarks to your webOS device. Those bookmarks can then be accessed by opening up the web application and swiping down from the top-left corner to bring down the Web Application drop-down and selecting "Bookmarks", or by just typing within your browser to search for them. Continue reading after the break to learn how to add bookmarks.
To save a website bookmark:
Within the web app, navigate to a website that you want to bookmark- Swipe down from the top-left corner to bring down the Web Application drop-down menu and select "Add Bookmark"
- The "Title" of the bookmark (how it will be displayed in the future) will be defaulted to the website name, but
can adjust this to something more useful - The URL will be pre-filled in with the web page you were on, although it can be edited if necessary
- The little square above the Title actually represents the thumbnail icon that will be saved for this bookmark. If you tap on that square, the webpage will be displayed with four corners of a square outlining the top-left corner of the site. You have the ability to set your bookmark thumbnail by zooming in/out (using pinch-to-zoom or double-tapping) and panning around that page until the picture you want is centered within the square. Hit "Done" when you are happy with the picture
- Finally, tap "Add Bookmark"
To verify that your bookmark was saved, open the Application drop-down from the top left and tap "Bookmarks". From here, you can rearrange the order by press-and-holding a bookmark and then dragging it to the desired position, or you can edit the bookmark by tapping the 
icon on the right of the screen.
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"Your 12 most recently bookmarks are displayed as tiles when you load up the web browser"
I actually have 24 bookmarks tiled in my web browser.
Yup. There's a great patch in Preware for that called "Change Number of Bookmarks" by jmartino2011 that allows 12 to become 100.
about 3 months ago all my bookmarks disappeared and my phone no longer saves history or anything in the internet browser. Does anyone know how to reset this so it brings them back?
Did you try doctoring your phone?
I havent at all actually, just downloaded some apps. I think it may have happened when I did the 1.4.5 update but Im not sure.
Same here. I don't recall _exactly_ the fix but it fixed ok with no obvious loss. At least for me. Browser bookmarks and such get stored in the db file in /var/palm/data/file_.usr.palm.applications.com.palm.app.browser_0/. All my bookmarks were still in there, just not showing up in the browser. This is the part I don't remember: I think _maybe_ I did something like toss all cards, rename the file, start the browser, toss the browser, restore the file, start the browser again and marvel at inexplicably restored bookmarks. ?. I might misremember the fix but do recall that all the expected data was still there in the db file.
thanks I will try that when I get home
The same situation occured on my phone. I was updating uberkernal and opened up the browser while the update was happening. Upon the Luna restart I was not able to see existing bookmarks or new saved bookmarks. They were there...just wouldn't view. I resolved by doctoring my phone and using Save/Restore to save application data. Doctoring your phone wil require you to redownload all apps. You will lose any apps that are now not available for download through App Catalog or Preware feeds.
You may want to try p.mc's way first.
don't use bookmarks in browser. just add shortcuts to your launcher so they will be searchable directly from universal search (just type).
Anyone know how to import bookmarks/favorites from a PC and the Firefox browser?
If you synchronize your bookmarks with the Xmarks add-on (it syncs bookmarks within and across different browsers--pretty good stuff) then you can use the mobile Xmarks website to click on your bookmarks one-by-one and save them as bookmarks within the webOS browser. That's not exactly fast or terribly convenient, but at least it saves the trouble of typing in all the addresses.
As the in-web-browser bookmarks are not indexed for universal search, I use to save important BMs to the home screen. How can I actually delete one of those BMs? Swiping ofc doesn't work, and hitting the icon just starts the browser. Hmmmm.
And another thing: Is there a way to create an icon for a PDF that is saved on my USB partition? I want to have some PDF as icons on my home screen, is there a way?
To delete, are you doing it from the Tiles page (screenshot at top of Tip), or from the "Bookmarks" listing (screenshot at bottom of Tip)? you should be able to just swipe to delete if doing it from the listing
If you mean the home page on the app launcher, you can just hold down the option key and then touch the BM you have added there as a launcher icon. It will then give you the option to delete.
So will clicking the little icon & adjusting the bookmark thumbnail keep it that way? I ask b/c the behavior I see is that the bookmark thumbnail keeps changing to whatever the page looked like the last time I visited it.
Hux, if you press your orange/white function button first and THEN tap the icon for your bookmark, a "delete" dialog box will appear for you...
PDF shortcuts would be great, but, sadly, it would have to originate in the PDF viewer app and probably wouldn't function. :(
You can also reorder your bookmarks once you are on a web page and use the menu option for bookmarks. Once in the list, hold your finger on a bookmark and slide it to the position you want it in.
I can't seem to replicate this on the browser launching page with the larger bookmark icons. But once you do it on the list view from in the browser, they are re-ordered on the launching page as well.
But this has been incredibly useful to me when I added a few bookmarks but it always puts them at the end.
...if you have the bookmark on a launch page, that is...
Now if they will show everyone how to add web links to the launcher and make your own icons for them !! thats the fun one !! This way they will show up in search or just type when searching !! if anyone needs any directions just pm me and i will give you some help !!
wait until tomorrow (or monday) for that tip! it's coming..
I would like to set up a tree structure similar to the Personal Toolbar Folder in the Mozilla Browser suites. Then, I'd want just the high-level 'folders' as the icon cards. Each tap on an icon would bring up the next level of 'folders'l...
Thanks for the tip!